The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com

The Mundaneum Museum Honors the First Concept of the World Wide Web - NYTimes.com

"In 1934, [Belgian librarian Paul] Otlet sketched out plans for a global network of computers (or "electric telescopes," as he called them) that would allow people to search and browse through millions of interlinked documents, images, audio and video files.... Although Otlet's proto-Web relied on a patchwork of analog technologies like index cards and telegraph machines, it nonetheless anticipated the hyperlinked structure of today's Web.... Otlet's vision hinged on the idea of a networked machine that joined documents using symbolic links. While that notion may seem obvious today, in 1934 it marked a conceptual breakthrough." (Via Ephemeral Isle.)